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tun

[tuhn] / tʌn /




NOUN
vat
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He added that water bears can retract their limbs and shorten their bodies to enter a state called "tun" when they are particularly stressed out.

From Salon Sep. 1, 2024

It may tun out to be a climactic final act.

From Washington Times Aug. 22, 2023

Using his typical mix of nasty sliders and biting curveball with a located fastball to keep hitters honest, he didn’t get a tun of help from his defense, which committed two errors.

From Seattle Times Aug. 26, 2022

Besides this product the remains of five hogsheads of fish will produce one tun of pumice or fish guano, the best fertilizer known, and worth by itself $20 per tun.”

From Scientific American Jan. 5, 2019

Bertha and Nathan send their love, and I send mine, by the bushel, by the barrel, by the tun.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

“Those dunks Jalen had, just playing defense, locking up and spreading out. It tuns the momentum in our favor,” said Amen Thompson, who finished with 16 points of the bench for Houston.

From Seattle Times Mar. 8, 2024

Maryland’s own cats are back, and offering more funkadelic, groovy tuns for either meditation or mellow dancing.

From Washington Times Jan. 15, 2017

Giant arms rotate in the mixture to break down the bubbles and stop the froth rising to the hatches, but some is still seeping out from a couple of the wash tuns.

From The Guardian Dec. 4, 2010

The jury is out on whether the oaken tuns at the Newark brewery imparted any significant flavor to their contents.

From Washington Post

Emanuel, the oldest, today* tuns the dry-cleaning plant.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

When tunned, and the beer has done working, cover the bung-hole with paper.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

When it is tunned up, hang in it a bag containing five handfuls of Clove-gilly-flowers, and sufficient quantity of the spices above.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell

Next mornin', do', she done sort o' tunned some, an' ain' so sweet.

From Unc' Edinburg A Plantation Echo by Thomas Nelson Page

They were worked in the same manner, and tunned and kept in the same cellar; a proof that the water only could be the cause of the difference.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

Having succeeded in stopping the flight of a considerable number of the Araucanians, Lautaro grasped a lance which he tunned against his late master, crying out, "Follow me my countrymen to certain victory."

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

But during my second year, my friend Locke Ndzamela, Healdtown’s champion hurdler, encouraged me to take up a new sport: long-distance tunning.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

How they pull, and there's a stiff sea tunning too.

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

But he soon loved the "tunning sing," and would stand watching it with a grave face, till some funny little idea found vent in still funnier words or caresses.

From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Louisa May Alcott

Before tunning, all the wort should be put together, and thoroughly mixed.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

Doesn't the beer want tunning, and thou'rt leesing there o' thy haunches; at thy whys and thy wise speeches.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby




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